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National Basketball Association (NBA) History. The National Basketball Association (NBA) History. The National Basketball Association (NBA) was founded in 1946 as the Basketball Association of America. It adopted the name National Basketball Association in the fall of 1949 after adding several teams from the rival National Basketball League (NBL).
The league was made up mostly by teams in small Great Lakes towns and corporate teams. The NBL lasted 12 years before merging with the three-year-old Basketball Association of America in 1949 which was renamed the National Basketball Association. Some of the current NBA teams can chase their roots to the NBL.